October House of Order - Fledglings flying through October 2017

[CotswoldStrife]

Order, Order! Do you have a little house of horrors? Welcome to the October Flylady thread where we follow the Flylady method for keeping our houses in order (along with some general chat and support). The monthly focus for October is paper clutter

I'll be posting links to the daily missions, daily focus and the zone cleaning - don't worry about the detailed zone cleaning if you haven't already decluttered, Flylady recommends decluttering first. Join us at any point this month

I'll post the first October links tonight!

Hello, typing this with five mins of the day left!

Not as much stashing-and-dashing today but did make hardly noticeable progress so all helpful.

It is a bit of a trying week for me, DD has to take more equipment to school than usual, it's a big-0 wedding anniversary, we are waiting for the 11+ results, have another school visit AND having some work done on the house. I'm not fitting it all in very well I am lucky not to work, I don't know how some people do it.

DD also suspiciously pale tonight - I'm hoping she is just exhausted - and now DH is going down with a bad cold. Meh. I suppose if DD is off tomorrow it gives me one less thing to do and more time at home

The daily summary for Wednesday (also available on the Flylady website at flight plan which should update automatically each day.

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Baby-step no 11 - add an inspiration page to your control journal with your favourite quotes on

We are in Zone 2 this week: the kitchen

Spend 15 mins decluttering in Zone 2.

When you have finished decluttering, the detailed cleaning list (if you are at that stage) for Zone 2 is here

Mission for Wednesday declutter and clean the fridge

The daily focus for Wednesday is: anti-procrastination

The monthly habit for October paper clutter

daily reminders

Morning all
afresh another one here who freaked out monday morning.weekend galloped past
cag be careful you dont over do it
foxes hope you are better.few years bacj i got swine flu as zoolets start get better from it.was very lord of the flies here.....
sc i think supper party sounds waaaaay bettrr than dinner one.formal is not my thing at all way to slattern for that

Confirmation service sunday was lovely.as we dont hsve family a few church friends came and zoolets and i sang with choir too so enjoyed that.church made us a cake and gave us books ds got a super cool action bible(like actuon comic)lil zoo was given a traditional childrens bible.i git a womens reflection book.dd2(already cinfirmed)had selfie with bishop.classy teen eh?
She had busy weekend doing youth church leadership griup sat and sunday dash off youth quarterly celebrate group
Dp been off few days.mon we went few retail parks on edge county to top up zoolets clothes .yesterdat bit food shop and some time together.rare and nice
Place utter tip.best crack on....

Tadas
Kits/cat fed
Littertray done
Wash on
Relocate living room floor(shopping bags of clothes.confirmation cards etc as well genral gubbins)
Empty bathroom bin
Empty kitchen bin
Breakfast made
Pack ups done

Wash nearly finished...must sort more

ta da
play hunt the tools needed for the jobs needed to be done today
Swear copiously
make do with what have whilst swearing about missing tools that would make job easier and enable finishing in half the time
swear even more

do over?

hills i can tell chaos reigning here.mon ds couldnt find his homework.yesterday dd2 lost a piece.today was her tie then lil zoo couldnt find her reading record.ooops

Tadas
2 more loads wash done
(All new clothes washed)
All thats dry is folded and away.last load just in dryer
Walk lil zoo to school
Had my breakfast in peace
Wash up breakfast things

Am head out now to meet a friend and do bit local shopping and chat.the bread i got yesterdays almost gone(2 loaves ffs) and milk supplies are low again

Morning all!

Cotswold many congratulations to you and your oh on your big "0" anniversary! And fingers crossed for your dd's 11+ results ...!

Good to hear Confirmation went well Zoo!

Hope your tum ok Cag? And many congratulations on your weight loss! That's really good going while heavily pregnant - I was chewing off chair legs at that stage!!

Wow to lists Hills as ever!

Waves to Toostressy GingerIvy Foxes Oncewaswho Goldenclaire Honu Afreshstart and everyone else I have missed!

Have just met a lovely looking Bedlington Terrier out on furry walk 1 (looks wierdly like a sheep)! Sadly, didn't have a very nice temperament to match.

Ta da:
animals
emptied overnight dw and wms
re-fed wms
dining room table hot spots
quick tidy up of telly/play room

To do:
try and get on top of humungous washing pile but people will insist on wearing clothes
a load of cooking that I normally do on Thurs as heading off early to wreck2
huge general tidy up of house
BOUDOIR [yawn]
essential sewing - repairs, turn-ups, replacing lost buttons etc
packing & rabbit organisation for w/e

We are meant to be having an Indian summer here this weekend - last blast of summer and all of that - here's hoping!

Fuck that shit, could we have proper autumn now please! I don't think I can stand another warm winter. We need a proper chill to kill some bugs.

Been home 30mins and faffing on mn....
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To myself and anyone else in need of ut.i shall be back at one with a tada...

Thank you Zoo much needed!

Got involved in a Brexit thread, why oh why, when I know better!

Agree about bug killing Hills (esp slugs - loathe the blighters ) but wouldn't say no to one more sunny w/e!

One advantage of an empty nest sc is that there are fewer clothes to wash and fewer dishes to do. I have pretty much caught up with all the bed clothes that needed washing due to visitors/dog weeing on the bed (he has not long started on heart medication and a diuretic, the latter making him drink and wee a lot).

I’m looking forward to the Indian summer weekend. I still haven’t put the heating on so that saves some money.

I decided early on not to post anything Brexit on my Facebook page or get into any arguments about it. That is until a couple of weekends ago when I went to a cousin’s for dinner. Same cousin whose son had a wedding party in France, had visited us here the week before and stated they would like to retire to France, comes over this side of the water at every opportunity, whose wife went to French classes. They are the last people I would have thought would have voted to leave. But they did!

Keep forgetting to write any tadas and things to do. I’ll get the hang of it one day!

Tadas

Washing up done
Kitchen tidy
Washing put away
Washing on
Some of the end of quarter books

To do

Vacuum
Sort out small bedroom
Put out washing
More of the books
Prepare small Dutch presentation
Dutch homework

Students start arriving soon for the afternoon so I’m not sure when I am going to do this. Shouldn’t have spent so long faffing on the iPad this morning. Ironic that is anti procrastination day today!

Tada
Bathroom
Clean bath
Clean toothpaste encrusted sink
Wipe sill.skirt and radiator

Washing sorted into massive piles

Fed kits/scoutcat lunch

Time for mine then i really need to get some major blitzing done.i not sleeping(damn meds) and i exhausted.2-3 hours a night broken sleep.its like newborn phase without a baby to snuggle

Waves to Longtime yes we are economising atm and trying to keep the central heating off as long as poss too!

Sorry for bringing Brexit on to thread. I think your Facebook strategy is extremely sensible. It is such a horribly divisive subject. Everyone has a right to their own opinion. I just get very upset about it and ditto we had to ban it from the list of topics when dh's elderly relative visited recently as she has a tendency to rant .

Looking forward to the days of less clothing and bedlinen to wash ... we have ridiculous amounts currently!

Good luck with Dutch study/students!

Me again.....
If i kee posting i keep going
Placed avon order(some dd mates xmas gifts from sale leaflet!!)
Computer table clear n clean.contents put away
Under said table tidied
Dvds relocated to boxes and put away
Tv unit cleaned
Tv screen and computer screen wiped
Clear mantlepiece and dust
Wipe photos and return mantelpiece
Dust fire
Change cat water(fussy furrys like it in no rooms where there is either food or trays)
Clear little table next sofa
Tidy dvd bookcase

Good on you Zoo!

Sympathies over washing mounds!

Hey all.

Sandy I hate slugs too.

Longtime No heating on here either. In fact i have the windows open here most days still.

Gosh Zoo you've been busy today

I've deep cleaned the bathrooms today so thats my big task for the day done. I may have gone slightly overboard with the bleach. Used a whole bottle of bleach between the bathroom, ensuite and downstairs loo. Smells like a swimming pool here right now

claire any surviving germs have he respect to be there then

Kitchen
Hob cleaned
Tumble dryer de linted
Surfaced scrubbed and bleached
Cupboard fronts wiped
Yet more washing/drying(still mountains upstairs)
Just discovered brown pawprunts in dd2/on duvet cover(sigh) carbonelle has frequent Cowpat poo due to her goat it attitude and inability to digest too much grain/junk.she has become resident under tabke hoover if not quick enough she woofs down EVERYTHING which is sadly reflected in littertray and in this case on beds she serms get it trsp un her paws so doesnt leavd trail on floors jyst soft surfaces that get between her toes.these incidents only happen in middle of night as she breaks into sleep in girls room......
I suspect i need soak that in napisan and hot wash?

In dd2
Dd2 bed(to clarify.she is vegetarian and does not eat small goat kittens!!)

Ta da:
more laundry sorting
prepped cool white wash
x 4 loads of washing
hung up two of them to dry
made two sticky ginger cakes
made butternut squash soup
made veggie shepherd's pie
prepped tonight's supper
tidied up kitchen and filled dw
did one hour of sewing and gave up (will finish the rest later)
last bits of packing
rabbit leaving prep
tested dd on hwk prep
cleaned bathroom lav, bath, shower and sink

still haven't done boudoir because Mumsnetted instead ] but I am going to make myself do it now

to do: packing car/driving

Goldenclaire I love a bit of bleach as much as the next person but was a bit alarmed when I read this a while back. Have no idea how scientifically sound or not it is though! And would have thought nurses use disinfectant a lot more than once a week!

Great lists Zoo sorry about catpat though!

sandy yes i saw that article doing the rounds on facebook recently. My point of view is you probably inhale and ingest more chlorine at your local swimming pool than when using it to clean the bathroom. Its the people who seem to use zoflora as an air freshner that i think are more at harm as that can't be good for you intentionally inhaling those fumes. I do like bleach to make me feel like i'm properly killing all the nasties when i deep clean the bathrooms though but i do open the windows during and after i've used it.

Our central heating turn itself on to cook today. Tracked the issue to some dead batteries in the thermostat control unit. Was good paint drying temperature though Weather is bleurgh and muggy atm.

Re the science there is basis to the report but not sure how accurate the reporting and imho someone should do the same study on air freshners. But that would mean upsetting industry with major political influencial power so that will never happen